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Exomologisi enos oikonomikou dolofonou (2007)
Documents a system of corporatocracy and greed
The documentary provides Perkins' account of his career.
His job at the firm was to convince leaders of underdeveloped countries to accept substantial development loans.
Perkins' function was to convince the political and financial leadership of developing countries to accept enormous development loans from institutions.
Perkins argues that these nations were effectively neutralized politically, with their wealth gaps driven wider and their long-term economies crippled.
The U. S. foreign policy and the notion of a system of corporatocracy and greed as the driving forces behind establishing the United States as a global empire, in which he took a role as an "economic hit man" to expand its influence.
Sankara... e quel giorno uccisero la felicità (2013)
The African Che Guevara
A man who challenged the mighty of the world. He said that politics only made sense if he worked for the happiness of the people. He affirmed, with his own personal example, that politics was service, not power or personal enrichment. He supported the reasons of the least, of the different and of women. He denounced the criminal overwhelming power of big finance. He mocked the rules of a world founded on a competitiveness that always punishes the humble and those who work. And that always enriches the puppeteers of this stupid arena. He screamed that the world was for women and men, all women and all men and that it was not fair that many, too many could only look at the lives of a few and try to survive. They killed him and tried to erase all memory.
An important document to understand the revolution in Burkina Faso and the life of this revolutionary president who with humility, simplicity and firmness has improved the life of an entire country.
A charachter with values that should be engraved in the mind, who had the courage to oppose the great powers, in favor of his land, for the common good.
An hour in which it is possible to see the true image of the man who was Sankara, a documentary not to be missed to remind you that a different way of doing politics exists.
The story of how he could (and could be) Africa.
He made the largest vaccination campaign ever seen, gave five liters of water and two meals a day to all citizens, fought corruption, sold all Mercedes to declare Renault 5 state cars. He explained very well to the world and the UN how debt (the new form of colonialism) was strangling Africa. He said that "happiness", and nothing else, had to be the goal of a state. His bank account was always in the red, the mortgage to pay, the presidential car was a small car and questioned the global economic system.
This is a story that should be studied in school.
An example and a documentary that absolutely needs to be known.
The Money Masters (1996)
Superlative economic documentary
A mastodontic 3 1/2 hour, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today.
The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money.
The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth.
With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned "central" bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day.
Nation after nation, including America, has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers.
The Century of the Self (2002)
How Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis changed our perception and mind
The documentary explores the various ways that governments and corporations have used Freud's theories.
The untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society.
The roots and methods of consumerism and commodification and their implications.
The business and political worlds use psychological techniques to read, create and fulfill the desires of the public, and to make their products and speeches as pleasing as possible to consumers and voters.
"We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. Man's desires must overshadow his needs."
Laboratory Greece (2019)
Documentary of inestimable depth of research and cultural value
Challenging in terms of duration and amount of information but absolutely worth seeing (at least twice).
It requires a medium-high cultural background in order to be fully appreciated but those who possess the necessary tools and affinity of interest for the topics covered (ranging from history to politics to economics to sociology, etc.) will find an unprecedented and unparalleled work.
It examines many themes such as the conquest of a nation through political occupation and debt slavery; fear, hope, "guilt" and social engineering to manipulate the masses; the history of Globalization and the European Union in relation to the Eurosystem (how it works) and many more.
A commendable journalistic research that can be evaluated and judged in several ways.
A thought-provoking documentary that needs and truly deserves to be understood and valued.
The Corporation (2003)
A thought-provoking documentation of capitalism's evil
Corporations are nowadays legal persons who have the obligation to put the protection of their shareholders, ie the realization of a profit, above any other goal. Therefore, they have no interest in safeguarding the nature or welfare of workers.
The documentary explains this phenomenon and illustrates it with various examples, which include, among other things: the exploitation of labor, especially in Central American countries, the synthesis and diffusion of chemicals dangerous to health, the pollution of factories and animal husbandry; today's advertising, more sophisticated and created specifically to condition purchases. Corporations leverage their vulnerability to sell their products and to create an army of "small consumers" who have blind faith in multinationals; privatization of public goods.
A journey into globalization to think and build one's own conscience on the subject.
Requiem for the American Dream (2015)
Critique of the socioeconomic landscape of the USA
This remarkable documentary is taken and ispired from the last long interview to the activist, thinker, historian, linguist Noam Chomsky in which he describes the socioeconomic landscape of the USA.
The ideas that Chomsky systematically addressed in the documentary were compiled in the book "Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power".
This text, examinates the 10 principles of wealth and power concentration and reveals the elite and powerful minority, who thinks of their own interests.
An unprecedented inequality in history.
Tracing half a century of policies aimed at favoring the richest at the expense of the majority, the elimination of the American worker, the disappearance of the living wage, the collapse of the dream of owning a home, the skyrocketing costs of higher education that they make possible advancement unattainable or cause students to be chained to suffocating debts, and the loss of solidarity.
Inside Job (2010)
Essential viewing of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis
The best documentary film on the subject of the 2008 financial crisis and the first film to expose the shocking truth it.
Exemplary-argued documentary.
The global financial meltdown, through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists.
Unveils the relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
A comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis that caused millions of people to lose their jobs and the worst recession since the Great Depression.
An alarming portrait, a disturbing relationship between exponents of the economic world and the political sphere.
Deserved Academy Award Winner.